FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUS IS THE FREEDOM OF ATHEISTIC BELIEFS AS WELL

Yuriy R. Vishnevskiy –Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of Chair of Sociology and Social Technologies, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, LAU and UrFU Emeritus Professor (Ekaterinburg).
Year: 2016
DOI:
UDK: 316.74
Pages: 77-82
Language: russian
Section: Philosophy
Keywords: freedom of conscious, freedom of worship, atheistic beliefs, worshippers, differences between science and religion, the secular nature of a state.
Abstract
The article deals with the issues of freedom of conscious and freedom of worship in the context of Soviet and Russian legislation, sociological surveys, judgments of Russian Orthodox Church in this regard. The author concludes that modern society needs the deeper understanding of freedom of conscious and any attempt to review defining principles of the Russian state as a secular one is unacceptable.
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